Nearly 200 Wisconsin Cops Fired From Past Law Enforcement Jobs Still Work As Police

In its report, the Center received data showing that more than 1,000 state officers had been fired or resigned before termination over the five-year period since the state started tracking this data around in 2017. This means roughly 20 percent of those officers have maintained careers in the service despite their past transgressions. Wisconsin Watch reporter Peter Cameron, who also serves as managing editor of the nonprofit investigative outlet The Badger Project, found one listed officer who was accused of engaging in multiple drunken bar fights and another who allegedly sent “lewd” photos to a female officer on multiple occasions....

December 28, 2022 · 3 min · 444 words · Paula Pai

Nearly 50 Royal Caribbean Passengers Test Positive For Covid In Setback For Cruise Industry

In total, 48 people on Royal Caribbean’s Symphony of the Seas ship tested positive for the virus, a spokesperson for the cruise line wrote in a statement to Newsweek on Sunday. The ship set sail from Miami on December 11 and returned on Saturday. All crew members were vaccinated and test for the virus weekly, while 95 percent of the 6,091 passengers were fully vaccinated, according to the statement. Ninety-eight percent of those who became infected with the virus were vaccinated....

December 28, 2022 · 3 min · 438 words · Raymond Teague

Nearly 70 Percent Of Medical Debt Set To Be Wiped From Credit Reports

In March, the three major U.S. credit reporting agencies announced that they were planning to stop including medical collection debt that was previously listed on individual credit reports. “The three nationwide credit reporting agencies (NCRAs) today announced significant changes to medical collection debt reporting to support consumers faced with unexpected medical bills,” Experian, Equifax and TransUnion said in a joint statement on March 18. “These joint measures will remove nearly 70% of medical collection debt tradelines from consumer credit reports, a step taken after months of industry research....

December 28, 2022 · 2 min · 402 words · Benjamin Reager

Nearly 768 000 Volvo Cars Now Recalled In U.S. Due To Potential Of Exploding Air Bags

The recall by U.S. safety regulators is because the front driver’s air bag could explode and send shrapnel into the vehicle’s cabin. This airbag problem is similar to that of airbags made by Takata, a bankrupt Japanese airbag producer company, that killed 28 people worldwide, 19 people in the U.S., and injured over 400 people. The Takata company airbags used ammonium nitrate to create a small explosion to inflate airbags during a crash, but with deterioration and exposure to high heat or humidity, the once controlled explosion could violently blow apart a metal canister and seriously injure passengers....

December 28, 2022 · 2 min · 340 words · Bradley Turner

Nearly Three Quarters Of Michigan Voters Want Open Carry Of Guns Banned At Polls Counter To Court Decision

On Tuesday, Court of Claims Judge Christopher Murray granted a preliminary injunction against Michigan’s Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson order, which banned the open carry of firearms within 100 feet of polling centers. Although Murray ruled against Benson’s decision, he said it was possible for such a ban to be implemented. The judge wrote in his opinion that the order violated the Midwestern state’s Administrative Procedures Act. The state’s attorney general appealed the decision on Wednesday....

December 28, 2022 · 3 min · 504 words · Charles Hunt

Nebraska Vs. Northwestern Final Score Results Cornhuskers Collapse In Ireland After Failed Onside Kick

The Cornhuskers looked to be gaining momentum toward a victory in their season opener against Northwestern on Saturday in Dublin. They were up by 11 with nine minutes remaining in the third quarter. Then Frost attempted an onside kick that Northwestern recovered. The Wildcats scored less than two minutes later and finished the game with 14 unanswered points for a 31-28 victory in Dublin. Northwestern (1-0, 1-0 Big Ten) iced the game when Xander Muellen intercepted a tipped pass with less than two minutes to play....

December 28, 2022 · 12 min · 2493 words · Clarence Hubbard

Neighbor Finds Escape Artist Toddler Knocking On Their Door At 6 30 A.M.

Alexx Doehr shared a hilarious clip from her CCTV cameras, showing her son waltzing out of their house, in Florida, in the early hours of the morning. Various cameras captured the tot heading over to their neighbors to ask to play, only for a bleary-eyed woman to open the door, scoop up the boy and take him back home. But it seems after the 3-year-old had mastered unlocking the door, he tried his luck a few more times, with various adults chaperoning him back inside....

December 28, 2022 · 4 min · 805 words · Robert Hobbs

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Neil Cavuto Pushes Vaccine On Fox News Gets Mixed Reviews Life S Too Short To Be An Ass

Cavuto, who has been open about his health struggles over the years, announced his breakthrough COVID case in a statement Tuesday, adding: “Had I not been vaccinated, and with all my medical issues, this would be a far more dire situation.” In his first television appearance since testing positive for coronavirus, the anchor implored viewers to side aside their political differences and take the vaccine. “I can’t stress this enough....

December 28, 2022 · 3 min · 447 words · Martha Rivera

Nelson Mandela The Leader No One Knows

In prison, Nelson Mandela found that the older he grew, the more he thought back on his childhood: the Tembu kraal by the Bashee River where he was born, the thatch hut where he learned his ABCs, the pastures where he herded cattle, the hills of the Transkei, where he scrambled after small game. As a boy, he listened to the elders of the Tembu tribe conjuring up the good old days before the white men put their bight on the land....

December 28, 2022 · 11 min · 2323 words · Richard Hernandez

Nepal Hopes For A Tourism Revival

Nepal has long been recognized as one of the world’s most desirable outdoor playgrounds, offering activities like mountaineering, trekking, river rafting and jungle safaris, to name a few. But in recent years, the country’s name has been more associated with civil war, tragedy and oppression. In 1996, an obscure group of Maoist rebels in the remote west began fighting the central government, a conflict that killed more than 13,000 people and rocked this tranquil Himalayan kingdom to its core....

December 28, 2022 · 6 min · 1106 words · Debra Elford

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Venture capital investment in Internet companies IN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS First six month Projected total 1993 $46.2 1994 42.0 1995 68.0 136.0 SOURCE: VENTUREONE CORP.

December 28, 2022 · 1 min · 25 words · Cory Naquin

Netanyahu Ahead But Needs Far Right As Israel Exit Polls Show No Clear Winner

The average of Israel’s Channel 11, Channel 12 and Channel 13 exit polls showed the ruling Likud ahead at 32 points but short of a 61-point mark needed to achieve a parliamentary majority in the 120-seat Knesset, as has been the case in most Israeli contests. In order to hit this figure, Likud would need to form a coalition with centrist, conservative and religious parties, including the far-right Yamina, which netted an estimated 7 points as indicated by the exit polls average....

December 28, 2022 · 3 min · 582 words · William Palmour

Netflix Series Taco Chronicles Traces The Lebanese And Mayan Origins Of Mexican Recipes

The first episode of Taco Chronicles, about the al pastor taco, is typical of the combination of influences at the heart of these treasured Mexican dishes. “The best foods in the world are spaghetti and al pastor tacos,” a girl in catrina makeup says. In “Pastor,” Las Crónicas del Taco traces the al pastor taco to the Anatolian peninsula, placing tacos al pastor in the same culinary lineage as shawarma and doner kebab....

December 28, 2022 · 3 min · 432 words · Russell Tuttle

Nets Ben Simmons Describes Relationship Or Lack Thereof With 76Ers Joel Embiid We Never Really Spoke

In an interview with ESPN’s Nick Friedell, Simmons, who was sent from Philadelphia to Brooklyn in a February trade, revealed that he “never really spoke” to Embiid. “I don’t think there was really a relationship there,” Simmons told Friedell. “Like in terms of a friendship? You can try as hard as you want to try to be close to somebody, be their friend, whatever it is, but everyone is different as people, so for me, it’s never personal....

December 28, 2022 · 2 min · 399 words · Evelyn Bailey

Nets Set Unlikely Performance Incentives In Kevin Durant Kyrie Irving Deals To Manage Cap Space

The Nets signed Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving to four-year, max deals this summer with player options in 2022-2023, but the duo will have to meet some specific requirements to get all their money, according to a report from ESPN. Brooklyn included approximately $1 million apiece for the two in yearly performance-based incentives in a likely attempt manipulate cap space favorably. These marks won’t be easy to reach. ESPN’s report states Irving has a total of eight incentives he is “unlikely” to reach that become more difficult in each year of his contract....

December 28, 2022 · 2 min · 331 words · Charles Cornett

Nets Star Kyrie Irving Ruled Out Of Celtics Clash

Irving sat out Wednesday’s 121-110 loss to the Celtics at TD Garden due to a right shoulder injury. While he was absent midweek, the six-time All-Star and 2016 NBA champion was still taunted with chants of “Where is Kyrie?” and “Kyrie sucks.” KYRIE ANSWERS: Irving posts IG response to fans And Irving will have to wait to face the Celtics as he is set to miss the rematch at Barclays Center....

December 28, 2022 · 1 min · 103 words · Larry Muraski

Nevada Law Enforcement Already Overreacting To Area 51 Raids Naruto Runners

Citing anonymous “law enforcement sources in the Nevada area,” TMZ confirms that government agencies are closely monitoring the reaction to the popular Facebook post, which received more than a million RSVPs with the title, “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us,” scheduled for September 20 at 3:00 am PDT. “We’re told the right people are monitoring all this online chatter about a potential raid, and the way the powers that be see it—anyone who tries to follow through will be met with serious obstacles,” TMZ describes....

December 28, 2022 · 2 min · 367 words · Gustavo Vang

Nevada Republicans Plan Protest Over Mail In Voting Bill

The state party plans to stage demonstrations against the new measures in Las Vegas, Reno and Carson City between 5-8 p.m. PDT as President Donald Trump has called for “immediate litigation” against the mail-in voting plans. Advertising the protests on Eventbrite, the Nevada GOP dubbed the emergency voting measures a “power grab bill” that would put “the integrity of the election results into question,” implying that mail-in voting would entail fraud....

December 28, 2022 · 3 min · 464 words · Beaulah Debose

Nevada S 98 Mile Long Extraterrestrial Highway Is Stranger Than Fiction

Instead, you can check out other out-of-this-world stops, from the Little A’Le’Inn, the only business in Rachel (the closest town to Area 51) to the Alien Research Center. Here is everything you need to know about the E.T. Highway before you set off on your stranger-than-fiction road trip. Strap on your seat belts, because we are about to take a trip down Route 375, which Nevada officially designated “the Extraterrestrial Highway” in 1996....

December 28, 2022 · 4 min · 830 words · Della Carpenter